[chimerax-users] Feature requests

[Ishwar Radhakrishnan]

Hello Eric - thank you so much for the quick turnaround!  My responses 
are below. - ir

On 1/18/2022 8:39 PM, Eric Pettersen wrote:
>> On Jan 14, 2022, at 4:06 PM, Ishwar Radhakrishnan via ChimeraX-users 
>> <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hello - I would like to request two features in ChimeraX that we use 
>> a lot in Chimera:
>
> Hi Ishwar,
> Thanks for letting us know what's missing that's important to you.  It 
> helps us prioritize.
>
>> 1. Render by Attribute
>
> This is being worked on and /might, maybe/ make the 1.4 release. 
>  Well, in some form.  Initially probably only Render/Colors and 
> Select.  Not too much later Render/Radii, but probably much later 
> Render/Worms, since that last one will require significant additions 
> to the ribbon-depiction code.  If Render/Worms is very important to 
> you, pipe up! :-)
>
> I'll add you to the recipient list for the ticket we have for this so 
> that you will automatically be notified when progress occurs.
>

Render by Attribute/Colors is what we use the most to map NMR chemical 
shift perturbations on to a structure, so I'm glad that it's receiving 
the highest priority!

>> 2. Ability to read .poc files created by CASTp
>
> This had been pretty low priority.  Are we talking about structures 
> that you've run CASTp on by hand rather than fetched from the 
> database?  The database doesn't seem to include any recent structures.
>

Yes, I'm talking about the ability to read .poc files for structures for 
which we have manually asked CASTp to calculate pockets on their webserver.

> --Eric
>
> Eric Pettersen
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>
>
>
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